Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advertising is in bad odor today. Many are denouncing it as an out and out menace. . . . Now, we are all to blame, of course, but . . . it's the agency writers that are pulling down the whole shining edifice. There's too much sizzle and too little steak. . . . [They] blithely take over the field of morals, metaphysics, and theology. . . . [They] guarantee that [the reader] and everyone dear to her will live happily and untouched by tragedy for the rest of their natural days if she only has this jar of skin cleanser. . . . The unclogging of the pores north...
...thing, though, is certain. If the team is disappointing, it won't be because of its coaching, or the spirit of its material. Better blame it on the murderous schedule that includes fives up and down the New England coast who are loaded for revenge for last year's whippings. As for Holy Cross, only victor over the Stahlmen in regular competition, they are better than ever after a year of practice together...
...shadow of blame could be cast on George Marshall. In eleven months he had won the affection and respect of both Nationalist and Communist leaders, and the Chinese people. (Mrs. Marshall's graceful contributions had included teaching the austere Generalissimo to relax over Chinese checkers...
Although many a planemaker (including Piper, Cessna, Republic) denied it, the stockmarket decline and the slump in the luxury market had cut sales. Those who did admit it usually put the blame chiefly on lack of sufficient airports to take light planes out of the luxury class...
...airphibian-builder Fulton put the blame on the kind of planes being made...